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fruit

[froot] / frut /
NOUN
edible part of vegetative growth developed after flowering
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Today, American fruit makes up barely 5% of the company’s imports, dwarfed by produce from South Africa, which benefited from the lifting of apartheid-era sanctions, and China.

From The Wall Street Journal

Is it made from milk, milk substitute or more than half real fruit or vegetable juices?

From The Wall Street Journal

He has been seen touring a grocery market and delivering kumquats—a citrus fruit that represents prosperity in Chinese culture—to local employees at a company party.

From The Wall Street Journal

Brazil has declared the acai berry a national fruit, a move to stamp its ownership on the popular "superfood" as concerns grow about foreign companies staking claims to the Amazon's biological riches.

From Barron's

Mom brought food from the Ranch, and she buys fruit and nuts when we stop for gas, but I barely touch any of it.

From Literature